The Wolverine: Bone Claws Are In a Flashback

In case there was any doubt, comparing the image released by Empire magazine earlier today with other production stills taken by amateur photographers on the set of The Wolverine this summer seems to indicate that the scene pictured, in which Wolverine has bone claws rather than his traditional adamantium, takes place in the past.While filmmakers made clear that the film is not a prequel, but actually takes place after every X-Men film that’s been made so far, The Wolverine features some sequences that are either flashbacks, or part of the film is set in the past before the main story kicks off.Over at Bleeding Cool, Brendon Connelly implies that he knows much more about The Wolverine than most of the rest of us do–and he can’t say much. But what he does say?